{"id":528,"date":"2013-09-22T19:24:47","date_gmt":"2013-09-23T00:24:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/?p=528"},"modified":"2013-09-22T19:24:47","modified_gmt":"2013-09-23T00:24:47","slug":"autumnal-equinox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/autumnal-equinox\/","title":{"rendered":"Autumnal Equinox"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The seasons are changing. It&#8217;s noticeably quieter out on the lake now as migrants are starting to migrate and everyone else is preparing for winter. I&#8217;ve seen evidence of this at my backyard feeders too.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve already had the cultural end of summer (Labor Day), today is the astronomical end of summer (the equinox), and even the weather seems to be pushing towards a meteorological end of summer. Some trees are already starting to turn:<br \/>\n<IMG SRC=\"\/media\/IMGP4900_0003_tn.jpg\"><br \/>\n<IMG SRC=\"\/media\/IMGP4917_0002_tn.jpg\"><br \/>\nThe sky was mostly overcast yesterday morning when I was out on the lake, contributing to the feeling of &#8220;fall&#8221;:<br \/>\n<IMG SRC=\"\/media\/IMGP4924_0001_tn.jpg\"><br \/>\nBut this morning was bright sun, and some fog hanging over the North Rabon Creek (taken from US76, where I was cycling):<br \/>\n<IMG SRC=\"\/media\/IMG_20130922_083800_242a.jpg\"><br \/>\nWhen I got back from taking that picture, a group of jays were squawking up a storm at the house. There was a hawk hanging around and everyone knew about it (sorry, just had the cell phone for this one):<br \/>\n<IMG SRC=\"\/media\/IMG_20130922_090438_189a.jpg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The seasons are changing. It&#8217;s noticeably quieter out on the lake now as migrants are starting to migrate and everyone else is preparing for winter. I&#8217;ve seen evidence of this at my backyard feeders too. We&#8217;ve already had the cultural end of summer (Labor Day), today is the astronomical end of summer (the equinox), and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,3,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nature","category-photography","category-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=528"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":541,"href":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528\/revisions\/541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}